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Joffrey Ballet Academy renamed after historic $5 million gift
The Joffrey Ballet has received a historic $5 million donation from the Grainger Foundation, based in Lake Forest, Illinois. This generous gift will endow and rename the Joffrey Academy of Dance to the Grainger Academy of The Joffrey Ballet, effective immediately.
Writer and educator Peter Ferry, who inspired decades of students including Dave Eggers, dies at 77
Peter Mundell Ferry was passionately an author and teacher, inspiring decades of students in his English and writing classes at Lake Forest High School, a youthful crowd of many thousands that included such later famous people as actor Vince Vaughn and Dave Eggers, one of the leading literary figures of our time. “I learned a lot from Dave even when he was a student: If you want to be a ...
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